Posts tagged with disasters & emergencies

Submitted by Site moderator on Mon, 05/10/2009 - 11:57am.

Drought in East Africa

Drought in East Africa is reported to be the worst for ten years, affecting millions of people, domestic and wild animals.

Samoa tsunami / Typhoon Ketsana / Floods in the Phillipines - and how we can help

For up to date information on the tsunami in Samoa visit:

Relief Web, a UN site, collates information from many organisations - governments, media, NGOs etc - around the world on disasters and emergencies.

Submitted by Site moderator on Mon, 05/10/2009 - 11:28am.

Earthquake in Sumatra

For up to date information on the earthquake in Sumatra from governments, media, NGOs etc, visit Relief Web:

IB Community Theme: Sharing Our Humanity with HUB-GPN and UWC for A Better World!!!

This is a very special invitation for you, as a fellow UWC member, toplease visit www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/UniteForImpact<http://www.GiveWhileYouReceive.com/UniteForImpact> . Please also follow

Submitted by micco815 on Fri, 13/03/2009 - 3:54am.

世界贫穷

Name: Michael School: King George V School, Hong Kong

Recent disasters in Australia

My thoughts and sympathy go out to the families who have been affected by the recent floods in Nadi, Fiji and in North Queensland, Australia and the devasting bushfires in rural Victoria, Australia.

Financial assistance is absolutely necessary and allows for flexibilty- it can go where most needed for what is most needed. Fantastic organisations like the Red Cross and Salvation Army provide
material and financial assistance in times of emergency, see links
below.

Education resources from British Red Cross

The British Red Cross has developed many teaching resources - lesson plans, games, assembly ideas etc - in issues relating to its activities.

These include the following topics relevant to the IB community theme:

Environment exploitation could cause disaster

The world have suffered lots of natural disaster, which some of them
could be predict, and some are unpredictable. Through my experience,
the natural disaster also could be caused by environment exploitation
such as illegal logging. Illegal logging could cause floods and making
the ecosystem unbalance. With the limit of logging, we also could
reduce the happening of floods, landslides, and other kind of natural

Reflections under the IB community theme - A poem by a 16 year old IB student in Green Land Pré Vert International School

I'm an MYP student in Green Land Pre Vert International School- Egypt. My personal projet is under the IB community theme. It is a book of poems expressing teens' fear of the future towards global poverty. This is my first submission under the name of: "The Good Part In Me". I hope it provokes people into action towards eradication of poverty.

The Good Part In Me!